ALASKA'S MAMMOTH BROWN BEARS
Kansas City, Missouri: Burton Publishing Company, 1947. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Light brown/tan cloth-covered boards (8 in. x 5 1/2 in.) with black lettering and a Paula Hutchison drawing of an enormous Brown Bear to front board. Black lettering to spine. Rubbing to extremities. After eighty-years, very solidly bound. A few small spots to front board and a light "scritch" to rear board. Chase's accounts of hunting these giant Alaskan Brown Bears has become increasingly scarce, and difficult to obtain. This revised edition features photographic endpapers, and 23 black and white photographs. Good Plus. Item #100893
"The Alaska Brown Bear is the largest of all living carnivorous mammalia that inhabits the earth today. It would appear that nature had designed this wonderful and most interesting animal for the capture and storage of energy, and that its sole purpose in life is the dissipation of this marvelous, superfluous energy...Permit me to state before going further: I am a witness for the defense. The big brown bear of Alaska, as a species, I shall defend. But the exception which may occur in all species, the outlaw, I shall prosecute and exterminate whenever I may meet up with him..."
(from author's Preface).
Price: $150.00